I have been hunting around the forums for this information but my search-foo has failed me.

I have read that there are many suppliers of electricity in the cantons but I can't find any. How do you go about getting electricity in Switzerland, is it the same as the UK with any supplier being able to supply anywhere in the country but have different rates per Canton?

I am not looking for an "average" cost of electricity as everyones consumption is wildly different. I have my last years worth of usage in KwH's so if I can find suppliers who have KwH's (or whatever) I can then work out an equivalent cost.

So if people could point me in the direction of a few suitable suppliers and I'll fire up the google translate and the calculator.

Its outrageous that each Kanton still has its own monopoly Electricty supplier, i.e EKZ in Kanton Zurich which is no doubt twice the price it should be ! It the Swisscom of the 1980's

Not privatized doesn't mean more expensive or worse at all, you have been indoctrinated rather well.

Read up on, for example, water service in Paris, which allows for a fairly direct comparison. Or on the privatisation of UK trains and rails, in particular on Railtrack (private) and its successor Network Rail (public under special law).

Did I read this correctly you think that CH monopolised Electricity here is cheaper than in the UK ? We pay GBP 1,700 a year for our house without any heating

Price differences for individual cases need not mean anything at all. You'd need similar buidling standards, insulation, outside temperatures, appliances using electricity and usage of those, etc. It's much easier to compare price of a kWh and costs of line usage, if any.

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Water, electricity, public transpo should remain under public control IMHO, in the EU they have this privatization push but it doesn't work better and the costs have not gone down, italy docet, where privatization was seen like an efficiency move to avoid the corrupted politics, but didn't really work. It may be useful in a country where the public sector is inefficient but in switzerland it works really good, there's no reason or incentive to privatize anything.
Anyway electricity companies are private technically, but under public ownership, so it's in their interest to bring costs down as much as possible. They also manage street lights, christmas lights, etc.
The companies are not always cantonal, in ticino there are different ones for example. They can be directly owned by the communes, but a commune can also choose to manage electricity in-house (completely public), you can do whatever you want it's a democracy.

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